Getting Started with RF Toolbox

RF Toolbox™ provides functions, objects, and apps for designing, modeling, analyzing, and visualizing networks of radio frequency (RF) components. You can use RF Toolbox for wireless communications, radar, and signal integrity projects.

With RF Toolbox you can build networks of RF components such as filters, transmission lines, amplifiers, and mixers. Components can be specified using measurement data, network parameters, or physical properties. You can calculate S-parameters, convert among S, Y, Z, ABCD, h, g, and T network parameters, and visualize RF data using rectangular and polar plots and Smith^® Charts.

The RF Budget Analyzer app lets you analyze transmitters and receivers in terms of noise figure, gain, and IP3. You can generate RF Blockset™ testbenches and validate analytical results against circuit envelope simulations.

Using the rational function fitting method, you can build models of backplanes and interconnects, and export them as Simulink^® blocks or as Verilog-A modules for SerDes design.

RF Toolbox provides functions to manipulate and automate RF measurement data analysis, including de-embedding, enforcing passivity, and computing group delay.

Tutorials

• Superheterodyne Receiver Using RF Budget Analyzer App
  

  This example shows how to build a superheterodyne receiver and analyze the receiver's RF budget for gain, noise figure, and IP3 using the RF Budget Analyzer app.

• Basic Operations with RF Objects
  

  Explains how to use RF objects to import measured data, de-embed S-parameters, and design impedance matching networks.

• Model a Cascaded RF Network
  

  Describes how to build, simulate, and visualize the frequency-domain behavior of an RF network.

• Analyze a Transmission Line
  

  Describes how to compute and evaluate the transfer function of a transmission line and export a Verilog-A description.

More About

• RF Analysis
  

  Describes a typical workflow.

• RF Data Objects
  

  Describes the available RF data objects and their uses.

• RF Circuit Objects
  

  Describes the available RF circuit objects and their uses.

• RF Model Objects
  

  Describes the available RF model objects and their uses.

• RF Network Parameter Objects
  

  Describes the available RF network parameter objects and their uses.

Featured Examples

Superheterodyne Receiver Using RF Budget Analyzer App

Build a superheterodyne receiver and analyze the receiver's RF budget for gain, noise figure, and IP3 using the RF Budget Analyzer app. The receiver is a part of a transmitter-receiver system described in two IEEE conference papers, [1] and [2].

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Visualizing RF Budget Analysis Over Bandwidth

Programmatically perform an RF budget analysis of an RF receiver system and visualize computed budget results across the bandwidth of the input signal.

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Bandpass Filter Response

Compute the time-domain response of a simple bandpass filter:

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